Sentences with phrase «among city parents»
The poll found overwhelming support for charter schools among city parents.
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While the business opportunity in smaller cities is large, limited Internet connectivity and reluctance among parents and students to pay for online education hamper adoption of online supplementary education platforms, it said.
With an interesting shape and luxurious details, the City diaper bag from BabyMoov is a favorite among parents who want a stylish bag at a relatively low price.
A favorite double stroller among city living parents is the City Mcity living parents is the City MCity Mini.
The Waldorf School of Garden City promotes regular communication among students, parents, and teachers to ensure everyone is working toward the same goals for the student.
Two pounds lighter than Peg Perego's Book For Two, Baby Jogger's City Mini Double Stroller is a popular choice among parents, offering a one - hand fold, near - flat recline, and an adjustable handlebar.
A crass Facebook exchange among three lawyers of the Administration for Children's Services, the city's child welfare agency, and one from the Legal Aid Society, which represents many children and parents in court proceedings, is under scrutiny.
Among parents of children in the city's public schools, support for the plan following a description is just as strong (73 %), with just under half (49 %) backing it strongly.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Chandra M. Hayslett, Communications Director [email protected] 212-257-4350 New Yorkers Overwhelmingly Want Deal on New Teacher Evaluation System New Poll Shows Robust and Resilient Support; No Excuse Seen for Losing $ 300 million New York (Nov. 29, 2012)-- A new teacher evaluation system that would ensure that New York City received $ 300 million in additional State education funding enjoys overwhelming support among City voters in general and parents in particular, according to a new poll released today by StudentsFirstNY, the education reform advocacy group, and conducted by Anzalone Liszt Research.
A new teacher evaluation system that would ensure that New York City received $ 300 million in additional State education funding enjoys overwhelming support among City voters in general and parents in particular.
Poughkeepsie High School went into a lockdown earlier this week after a fight first broke out among students and later between parents, according to city police Sgt. George Camacho.
«There's no impending strike at the moment,» Michael Cordiello, president of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1181, told reporters at a press conference at City Hall, where he and other union leaders slammed the Bloomberg administration for creating «unnecessary fear» among parents by warning of the strike.
But there is no apparent evidence that these controversies and disputes have been mitigating factors for interest in Success schools among parents, especially in areas of the city with historically troubled schools, nor for interest in a Success school on Staten Island.
De Blasio's ostensible allies among the Senate Democrats are more aligned with the teachers» union view that mayoral control gives parents and local school boards too little power over city schools.
According to Christopher Zimmerman, medical director of the New York City Health Department's Bureau of Immunization, the virus spread quickly among children who were not fully vaccinated, including those whose parents put off the shots because of concern about the autism - vaccine link.
The film focuses on a handful of the city's musicians, including Micha Biton, whose music is heavily influenced by Moroccan sounds; singer Hagit Yaso, whose parents emigrated from Ethiopia and who sings in Hebrew, English and Arabic, among other languages; Teapacs, a band whose members have Tunisian, Moroccan, Romanian, Syrian, Polish, Russian and Yemenite heritage and whose album sales exceed 300,000; and Avi Vaknin, a singer, composer and music producer who for many years managed Sderock, a music club and educational center for teenagers.
The media also largely ignored other CCSR studies that had indicated that Chicago's retention policy was popular among the city's teachers, principals, and parents for, among other things, setting clear standards for student performance (see «Teachers and Students Speak «-RRB-.
Project U-Turn, a collaboration among foundations, parents, young people, and youth - serving organizations such as the school district and city agencies in Philadelphia, grew out of research that analyzed a variety of data sources in order to develop a clear picture of the nature of Philadelphia's dropout problem, get a deeper understanding of which students were most likely to drop out, and identify the early - warning signs that should alert teachers, school staff, and parents to the need for interventions.
· Big - city school systems are fighting charters by giving parents a wider array of choices among their public schools, suggesting that the choice genie has escaped from the bottle.
Others are involved with parent - based community groups: the Allston Brighton Community Development Corporation (working to create a dialogue among parents on local education issues, including assignment processes for schools), the Black Ministerial Alliance (working to improve the quality of Boston public schools), and City Life / Vida Urbana (working with a group of Latina mothers advocating for their special - needs children).
While there remain dozens of strong charter schools in New York City and demand for their seats remains robust among parents, they are viewed with suspicion if not outright contempt by New York City's mayor.
Fueled by a confluence of interests among urban parents, progressive educators, and school reform refugees, a small but growing handful of diverse charter schools like Capital City has sprouted up in big cities over the past decade: others are High Tech High in San Diego; E. L. Haynes in Washington, D.C.; Larchmont Charter School and Citizens of the World Prep in Los Angeles; Summit in Northern California; the five - school Denver School of Science and Technology (DSST) network; Community Roots, Brooklyn Prospect Charter School, and Upper West Success Academy in New York City; and Bricolage Academy, planned for New Orleans (see sidebar, page 33).
«If you work a second shift as a parent, and can never talk on the phone, it's problematic, but if you can text, that's a game changer,» says Deb Socia, executive director of Next Century Cities and former executive director of Tech Goes Home, an initiative to help improve technology access among low income parents.
She currently leads evaluations of child welfare interventions targeting parents for the Behavioral Interventions to Advance Self - Sufficiency — Next Generation project, a digital writing and feedback intervention in New York City high schools called Drive to Write, and a smartphone application to promote father engagement that is part of the Building Bridges and Bonds study, among others.
To parents choosing among schools, to families deciding where to live, to taxpayers attempting to gauge the ROI on schools they're supporting, and to policy makers concerned with big - picture questions such as how their education system is doing when compared with those in another city, state, or country, that information is only marginally helpful — and potentially quite misleading.
Its scores on state tests are among the city's highest, and hundreds of parents — mostly low - income African - Americans and Latinos — vie to enroll their children through a lottery every year.
«For us, what's going on in Newark is not a triumph, it's a tragedy,» said Sharon Smith, who has three children in that city's public schools and was among about 40 parents and students who filled the 12th floor conference room at the American Enterprise Institute.
The city's charter system is now one of the largest in the country, fueled largely by word of mouth among parents looking for better public schools.
Public school discipline in Nashville is a topic of discussion among parents, city leaders and educators in MNPS.
Trump won just 18 percent of the vote in New York City, and fared particularly poorly in neighborhoods where Success draws many of its disproportionately black and Latino students, ruffling feathers among some Success parents.
That gulf has only widened since the election of Donald Trump, who has touted school choice and other pro-reform policies, but has engendered deep resentment among the city's charter school parents with his incendiary remarks about blacks and Latinos.
The City's official survey of teachers, parents, and students consistently lands the school among the top rated in New York.
The city's homeless rate is tied to a variety of problems, including underemployment among undereducated parents, rising rental prices, and less federal and state funding for low - cost housing.
The fact that the AFT affiliate, like its counterparts in other districts, have the advantage of bodies on the ground — and in the case of race between Zimmer and Anderson, used it to their advantage — is another reminder that the school reform movement must do a better job of building grassroots support, especially among the 11.7 million single - parent families for whose children the failures of big - city districts such as L.A. Unified prove to weigh most - heavily.
Among a dozen educators interviewed, as well as parents, city school officials and members of Anderson's senior staff, there is strong belief that her plan to remake the district is working.
«I see frustration and bitterness among parents growing by leaps and bounds,» said Leonie Haimson, a mother who runs Class Size Matters, an advocacy group in New York City that pushes for reduced testing and smaller class sizes.
We are parents of students at Hamilton Elementary Middle School, which received some much - appreciated positive attention due to its selection as an «Opportunity School» by an organization called MarylandCAN («City's low - income students among highest achievers,» May 22).
A GOP - leaning polling group found two - thirds support for the strikers among Chicago's public school parents, and majority support among the city's voters — despite the condemnations issued by left - of - center pundits and editorial boards on the kids» behalf.
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And although there are a handful of parent - led groups working hard in the state, what strikes us about the «movement» is that it has taken hold everywhere, in bigger, county and district - wide groups, but also in small, school - centered groups like ours, and among individual parents across the city and state.
The decision shocked parents and community members because the schools are among the best in the city, both well above the state goal of 800 on the academic performance index.
The school has struggled to stem sliding enrollment and to address poor safety ratings by parents and test scores that were among the worst in the city.
«There had always been this underlying concern in the community, especially among the parents in the city school district, that there would be such a fearful reaction to consolidation that there would be white flight where you end up with public schools that are all black and private schools that are all white,» said Buffington, who served on the consolidation committee.
Truth be told, these parents, among many who share similar sentiments, are more responsible for Camden's improvements than Rouhanifard; without their support, the public schools in this city would still be grim because the reforms wouldn't have gained any traction.
Among our list of the most popular kid - friendly hotels in Chaweng are some of the city's top villas and resorts, which boast an impressive range of facilities which suit the needs of parents and children.
The reason they split, we're lead to believe, is because they couldn't agree on how to parent their six children: Jolie wants to homeschool their children so they can become «worldly» as the family travels throughout the world and among their homes in France, New Orleans, Los Angeles and New York City, and Pitt supposedly wanted them to be enrolled in school.
To assess adversity among inner - city low - income youth, clinicians should consider adding the following experiences to current ACE measures: single - parent homes; lack of parental love, support, and guidance; death of family members; exposure to violence, adult themes, and criminal behavior; date rape; personal victimization; bullying; economic hardship; discrimination; and poor health.
She grew up among artists, especially dancers, watching and partaking in rehearsals, and performances of her parents company Ballet para Todos in Mexico City.
[FN23] According to Wilson, the decreasing marriage rates among inner - city black parents reflects the «interaction between material and cultural constraints.»
This study examined maternal parenting trajectories and economic, social and health resources associated with these trajectories among low - income predominantly Black and Hispanic mothers over time using three waves of data from the Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three - City Study (N = 1140).